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Ritual Technology
One person’s ritual is all but useless to another, especially a really good ritual. This is because the good ones are repeatedly adapted and elaborated in the direction of providing better fit for the particular person – structure-preserving transformations, where the only test of whether the transformation is structure-preserving is subjective fee... See more
Ribbon Farm • Deep Laziness
Here’s where we circle back to the power of ritual and routine as certainty anchors in the creation process.
Jonathan Fields • Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
"We choose to build a second brain because it lets us garden our thinking over days, months, and years. Where social media is compulsive, tools for thought are reflective. Where social media is here and now, tools for thought dwell in the long now. Tools for thought slowly build compounding momentum through low, slow feedback loops that point us in
... See moreWe can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transform being-in-the-world into a being-at-home. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable. They even make it accessible, like a house. They structure time, furnish it. In his novel Citade
... See moreByung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
Rituals are tools to remind you of certain slippery-yet-critical truths.